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Nature Neuroscience 11, 989 - 990 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0908-989
Octopamine fuels fighting flies
Christopher J Potter1 & Liqun Luo1
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The authors are at the Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
e-mail: lluo@stanford.edu
Abstract
The neural basis of aggression is poorly understood. A study in this issue used genetic scalpels to dissect the circuitry of the fly brain and identified a small cluster of octopaminergic neurons that can make a fly fighting mad.
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